New Trivia Thread - First with the correct answer asks the next question.

[Bukfan]

I vote for a few true or false questions.
Enough with this intellectual masturbation so you can shoot further than the other.:eek:

Right, be happy you can shoot at all...:D

 

[Rekrab]

True / False gives us a 50% chance of being right on any quess. I like those odds!

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I vote for a few true or false questions.
Enough with this intellectual masturbation so you can shoot further than the other.:eek:

Now that I am coherent. Why must things be so soft and easy? Sure many of us relax here but competition can be a relaxing form of recreation. Challenge you mind and your resources live life to the fullest and test your ability to recall that which you have lived through.

Now for a real question about the trivial words of Bukowski. I know there is nothing trivial about the words of Bukowski.

What poem do these words come form:
"come on, baby, let's get
along, it's
easy. . ."

"not for me!" she screamed,
"not for
me!"

she ran into the bathroom to
put on her
makeup.
I got up for another
beer.

[skip to the end of the poem]
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.

 

[Black Swan]

ah!
RIFT

 

[Purple Stickpin]

If Gerard will allow, you are correct, Ms. Swan. That's also the final poem in Issue #128 of Wormwood Review.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Hey, Purple and Swan, true! that is the true answer to the question. I will allow that truly correct answer.

 

[Black Swan]

I will find a question later on today. Now I am going for coffee in Hekking.

 

[Black Swan]

when Bukowski started using a Mac, what was his favorite font?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I know someone mentioned it here before and I was looking at MS Word compared to the manuscripts from the time after he got the MAC, I say Template Gothic. My final answer.

 

[Black Swan]

No, that is not the right answer.
First tip, he mentionned it in a 1992 letter to......

 

[roni]

... Ivan Suvanjieff!

 

[Black Swan]

Back to the question.
What was his favorite font? ;)

 

[Bukfan]

Roni was half way right. It really is in a letter to Ivan Suvanjieff, Feb. 20, 1992. - and the favorite font is...drum roll...Palatino!
("I prefer "Palatino" because it makes me look like a better typist")

 

[Black Swan]

Yes! Roni found the right letter.
But Bukfan answered the question,
so you are next :)

 

[Bukfan]

Ok, let's stay with the letters. This one should be relatively easy to answer:

Bukowski called somebody a "child fucker" in a letter. Who was that somebody?

Bonus points for naming who the letter was for.

 

[Rekrab]

Wild guess: the late John Thomas? Who, according to press reports ...

 

[Bukfan]

Nope, David, but I guess John Thomas would've fit right in, according to press reports...;)

 

[Bukfan]

Okay, maybe the question was harder to answer than I thought, so here's a hint:

The "child fucker" in question was/is a celebrity.

 

[Billville]

I don't have a clue but I'm gonna say Polanski just because of the time frame and I'll take a second shot in the dark and say the letter was to Barbet Schroeder for no other reason other than Barbet was a film maker.

 

[1fsh2fsh]

Woody Allen?

 

[Bukfan]

Polanski

You're right, Bilville! It was Roman Polanski. Buk calls him, "Roman the child-fucker", in a letter to John Martin, August 18, 1979 (Living On Luck, page 270).

Your turn, Bilville!

 

[Billville]

Oh damn. I was afraid this day would come. Okay, lets see .... here's one--May 24th, 1940, Bukoswki wrote a letter to the editor in a column called "The Cubby Hole." What was the title of his letter.

(hint: it's a not so "Pleasant" source) :mad:

 

[Black Swan]

Time for a clue, so we can get this thing going.:)

 

[Ponder]

Not so pleasant is a clue.

 

[hank solo]

Here's a Wheel Of Fortune type clue: 2 letters so far and a free punctuation mark ;)

W## #r##?

 

[Ponder]

Wheel of fortune is my favorite show!!!
Thank you H S.

The answer is.......

Why Crab?

 

[marina del rey]

Ok, I'll take the bait.

"Why Crab?" in The Collegian. His earliest published words.


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Edit: Ponder beat me to it. The next question is yours, my friend.

 

[Ponder]

Thank you, marina del rey.

Jules Smith wrote a beautiful book on Buk's poetry;
ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH


Why this title?

 

[d gray]

it's from a poem called "experience" i think.
don't know if there's more to the answer though...

 

[Billville]

... brief interruption ... Congrats to those who got the Why Crab question correct (although I believe Hank Solo's really the winner)

and now on with our regular scheduled program.